Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-29
CAT-mEAT JOHNNY.
MAN who is wen known in New

| A MAN who is Well Known in New
| York shops.
!Frem the New York Sun.
| A little old man entered downtown
| wholesale shoe store the other day, narrates
| the New York Sun, and after bowling politely
| to one of the e1erks, said:
'fWant any meat to-daya"
"I guess not, Johnny" responded the
clerk ''We got enough yesterday for several
days"
The little old man nodded smiingly, and
| walked out on to the sidewalk.
''What does he mean," asked the reporter,
'fby asking if you want any meat? You don't
run restau rant here, do you?
''No," was the reply. che wants to know
whether we want any meat for the cat.
That little old man is Cat-meat Johnny, and
| is known by that name all over the down.
| town districts. He goes around from one
store to another and sells them meat for the
| cats and dogs. understand he makes quite
good thing out of it. He is very neat, and
always pleasant, and somehow or other We
| look for his coming"
The reporter followed the little old man
down Duane street, and saw him go into an
other store There he met with better for
tune.
eyes, guess we will take pound" said a
clerk to whom he appealed.
Cat-meat Johnny put down his basket,
and carefully lifted the cover. Then he
took out of it piece of nice, juicy look
ing meat, and weighed it on a little hanging
scale.
s'That will be eight cents" he said, as the
scale indicated little over pound.
Then he took the meat, wrapped it up
neatly in piece of brown paper, and laid it
| on the counter. After he had got his money
he started off agaia, with his basket on
L: a. ekal
him he turned around, with very pleasant
smile.
ooh! yes," he said, ''I have been in this
business for some time. 1t pays me better
than selling papers, and I am not able to do
hard work. It gives me plenty Of exercise
and lots of fresh air, and SO l always keep in
good health. I guess I am known in about
all the big wholesale stores. In those stores
they frequently have cats to keep the mice
and rats from in uring the goods. They keep
watch dogs, too, and, of course, they can't
bother with getting the meat to feed them,
and SO help them out. They all treat me
very nicely, and sometimes give me more than
ask. Whenever it comes around to Christ
mas or New Years, they never forget Cat
meat Johnny"
Then he nodded pleasantly again, and
trudged on about his business.
Scientific Drinking.
All New Workers do not toss off their
drinks after the traditional American fashion
by any means, says the New York Sun.
There is many a solemn, steady and deliber
ate drinker who is looked upon as standby
of a crack cafe or barroon. At Delmoni-
co.'s, for instance, there is solemn gentle
man who drinks champagne after the fBsh-
ion of a man who is out for the money. He
manages to absorb about four quarts q day,
and he always drinks alone. When he
makes up his mind that it is time to take
drink he devotes his energies to that pur-
pose. He enters the cafe slowly, stands in
the doorway, and, casting his eye about the
apartment selects comfortable chair at
table removed alike from draught and noise.
Then he SETTLES himself comfortably, tucks
the napkin under his chin, and pours out
pint glass of champagne, looks at it lovingly,
and then, lifting the glass to his lips, slowly
imbibes it all. It is spectacle that drives
every other man in the place to drink. At
the Brunswick there is an Englishman who
habitually blows in three big bottles of
brandy and soda after the same fashion every
night, and toddles off to bed in a state of
moist satisfaction. At the Gileey there is a
fat yachtsman who makes the daily absorp-
tion of about six drinks of ginger ale the
main object of his life. These men are not
frivolous and light, and they contrive to con-
vey the same ideas of importance which they
feel in their drinks to the bartenders and wait
ers, 80 that they are patrons of Importance
and note.